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Angels of the North (2)
So who was the dark-haired beauty at the Redworth bus stop?This was not the most important of the questions that gnawed away at me for several weeks of 1966. There was another that needed answering...
View ArticleThe silence of angels, and the dignity of labour on strike
Even without occasional reminders from friends who have posted little messages, here and at Salut!, I am aware that a little time has elapsed since my last posting.This is inevitable given the pressure...
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The cane and the Bunsen burner tube. That'll teach you....(2)
The angels will just have to wait a little longer. I did not really expect to return to memories of punishments dished out at school, but an opportunity came to me on a plate (I was going to say it...
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In the court of King Charlie
Picture: Peadar O'Sullivan Any mention of Charlie Hurley takes me straight back not just to Roker Park, where I spent a fair old part of my youth, but to the Old Shildon Workingmen's Club of the late...
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Woodbines, Shildon Tunnel and a boy's first kiss
Salut! North, I meant to say here, is not dead on purpose, just flagging a little because of other pressures on my time. Sadly, I got it wrong and said it at the main Salut! site by mistake. That...
View ArticleGreetings from Salut! North - alive if only just
Salut! North does not want to be left out of the merriment and wishes readers a happy, peaceful Christmas and a wonderful new year. Greetings extend to anyone who has strayed here from Salut!...
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Hoping for a French Riviera toast to Shildon glory
Thanks to @Scally Car Rather fancifully, I had hoped to interest my old newspaper, The Northern Echo, in this slice of nostalgia brought bang up to date by Shildon's night of potential glory. A win at...
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Salut! North's Christmas Salutations
Salut!’s little sites – Salut!, Salut! Live and Salut! North - hardly amount to an empire, even once you add the much bigger and more widely read Salut! Sunderland.If I have been known to use the term,...
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Salut! North adds its Christmas greetings but not much else apart from a...
Salut! North is the Cinderella of the already modest household of the Salut! empire. For shaming proof of that, I needed only to check when the last new posting appeared here: the Christmas greetings...
View ArticleWheels of life
Most of us can remember the first vehicles we possessed. Not the Dinky toys, tricycles or bikes with dropped handlebars you had as a kid, but motorised road transport.CN7480 was the registration number...
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